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Ravenscroft School From 1951 1958
I attended this school from 1951 -1958 and Mr Henry Francis Bailey ( with his wife Mary ) was always the head. At least till the time I left in 1958. They had one son Christopher who I believe wanted to become a ...Read more
A memory of Beckington by
Written While I Can Still Remember
I went to old Harlow College during the war. I remember walking across the fields to Harlow Mill where us boys used to swim. It was a very strict college with prefects. It was run on the style of the Cambridge ...Read more
A memory of Harlow by
Written While I Can Still Remember .
My name is Bernard Hagon I was born 1933 in city Road maternity home which had a direct hit during the war everybody killed . My parents had the British Empire in Barking Road Plaistow a Taylor Walker’s house just ...Read more
A memory of Calmore by
1973 Demolition Year For The Market Buildings
I arrived in Wolverhampton when demolition of the market buildings was under way. The buildings in front of the church (in the photo) must have already been long gone, but the buildings on the side ...Read more
A memory of Wolverhampton
2nd Airborne Company Raoc
Hi I was at Arnhem camp in 1958/59. This was where the heavy drop platforms were rigged with Landrover+trailer, before being transported to Abingdon airfield. There they would be loaded into a Beverly aircraft (with ...Read more
A memory of Watchfield in 1958 by
2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
My father tells me that there was an airfield at Watchford and that the Paras used it as a drop zone in the 1950's. Taking off from Abindon, they would drop at Watchfield. My Father did his night drop here and ...Read more
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3 Tons To Blandford
I was 8 years old when I arrived in Blandford. It was lunchtime on a Sunday a week before the Somerset and Dorset Railway closed on the 6th March 1966. My dad was in the Royal Signals and he was being posted to the 30th ...Read more
A memory of Blandford Camp in 1966 by
46 Bridge Road, Cove
46 Bridge Road at Cove is very significant to me because I was born in Bridge Road, no 46, on 29th June 1943, in the photo of Bridge Road it is the second house on the left, opposite Cove Supply Stores, so I'm sure my mother would ...Read more
A memory of Cove in 1943 by
52 Aisby
On my first day at Corringham School, my mother walked me, aged five, down the long lane from Aisby with our faithful old dog Floss and a playmate, Monica Bramford, a year or so older than me. During assembly I started to ...Read more
A memory of Corringham in 1950 by
A Legend Of Canadian Airmen
My family lived in Westbrook Road, off West Town Lane, Brislington, from early 1949 until April 21 1958, when I was just over 11 years old. We suddenly left on that day and moved to Hertfordshire, and apart from one ...Read more
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This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
This was one of the many Bomber Command airfields built in Lincolnshire during those fateful days.
A small market town of medieval origin where the Fens meet Breckland, Mildenhall gained an airfield between the wars, the starting point for many famous air races.
Luton's gas company made tar for airfield runways.
The high plateau of the Cotswolds was home to many airfields brought into service during the conflict.
Memories of the Second World War are rekindled when anniversaries are commemorated at the nearby airfield.
Every year up to 2002 a special service has been held in the parish church for the Pathfinder Squadrons which flew from Warboys airfield in the Second World War.
In the Second World War the airfield played an important role in the Battle of Britain.
One associates Benson with its RAF station and airfield, built in 1937.
Middle Wallop is a village of at least twenty-six houses with a garage, a pub and an army airfield.
Heston, too, had early links with air travel; it was at one time the nearest airfield to central London.
The nearby airfield was used in World War II for bombers and then for training, with the 39 Regiment of Royal Engineers stationed here from 1966 onwards.
Close by is Brooklands, where there was once a famous motor-racing circuit, an airfield and aviation factories.
This view shows the village of Brockworth, and what is now the old ICI site and airfield.
Known today for the nearby open prison situated on an old RAF camp, Eastchurch's claim to fame in earlier days was that it was the site of the first British airfield.
To the north-east lies the Second World War airfield which has been the centre for army flying since 1958.
During World War II the Kings Head was a popular watering-hole for airmen based at the nearby North Weald airfield.
The wartime airfield was over to the left.
The airfield was an important centre during the war, and was in use until the mid 1990s.
During the Second World War, Folly Hill, which lies just outside the village, was the site of an airfield, with Wellington bombers based here.
During the Second World War she kept open house for the RAF officers stationed at the nearby airfield at Wyton, and arranged musical and literary evenings.
During the last war a small airfield was built in Carnaby; it was in use up to 1963, by which time it stored intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The wartime airfield was over to the left.
Nearby is a memorial to a World War Two fighter airfield, which was used by the American Air Force.
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